JAWS Highlighted Feature

Visit Mentors' Round Tabletoread our interviews of women in the fields of science and health. These are women of varying levels of experience and backgrounds, brought to the table to answer your questions about everything from work-life balance to financial management. Read on, be inspired, and leave them (and us!) a comment!

Tracing the Path of Jewish Medical Pioneers by Roni Caryn Rabin. An exhibition offers a look at the emergence of European and American Jews as innovators in medicine, despite their status as outsiders frequently scorned by the establishment. May 21,2012

Giving Women the Access Code by Katie Hafner. Maria Klawe, president of Harvey Mudd College in California, has helped reverse the vexing trend toward fewer women in computer science, and others are following. April 2, 2012

Is nursing an appropriate profession for a Bais Yaakov graduate? What challenges does it present? How does a busy mother handle the long hours of hospital nursing shifts? These questions and others are addressed in Binah Magazine's article A Career in Compassion by Beily Paluch.

Four researchers taking part in the World Science Festival talked with The Times about their lives as scientists, the joys and struggles of research, and the specific challenges women in science face. Read it! Women Atop Their Fields Dissect the Scientific Life by Gina Kolata

Want to have a laugh and learn a nice lesson? Check out this funny and smart cartoon titled Marie Curie by xkcd! [P.S. Lise Meitner and Emmy Noether...both Jewish women!]